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This is a small part of a project I recently finished. I'm quite happy with how the acrylic looks.... but the black plastic part needs *lots* of work.

Hi B.

Thanks for posting this one I didn't know it can look that good.

(P.S. Did you have to modify the material at all ? )

Wow very nice

Yup, that's what it looks like!

Very nice.

Yup, i'd be happy too, the acyrlic looks amazing

Holy cow...that's perfect!

Thomas An. wrote:Hi B.

Thanks for posting this one I didn't know it can look that good.

(P.S. Did you have to modify the material at all ? )

Thanks everyone for your comments!

Thomas: I changed the weight of the second (frost) layer to 5 from 15 (which was the value of the last version). Thanks again for your help with it.

b-kandor wrote:Thomas: I changed the weight of the second (frost) layer to 5 from 15 (which was the value of the last version). Thanks again for your help with it.

Thanks B.

Thats the "internal reflection boost layer"
I remember it started as 5 or so, but then it went up, because the edges were not shiny enough in your last scene. So, is 5 a value that works best in most situations ? ... or do you keep changing per case ?

Havn't made enough tests yet to say. I've been deep in part/tool design land for 3 months

I just remembered that 15 seemed a little much so I made a guess at 5, then when I saw that the test was looking nice I just let it run overnight. That's 1600x800 and it's got about 14 hours each on my 2 dual core machines. With 3 emitters and a skydome.

As an acrylic mat. it definately passes muster!

Model itself plays an important role, too. Having no hard edges makes this material roar here. Very nice finish! ...also thanks to Thomas!

Thanks, Tom,

That's one of the benefits of modelling part that are manufactured. Everything I model gets built one way or the other. In this case I designed all of those parts and then designed the injection mold tooling for them. The tools are being cut now and will be ready by next week.

Very convincing!

You guys hit it on the acrylic material.
Very nice work.
I'm in awe of such skill with the Material Manager.
Or should I say getting the image out of your head, and onto
the monitor.
Incredible.

I agree, this is spot on perfect. It has that smooth nice acrylic look and feel ..perhaps toss in a couple of hairthin long scratches in various places and you got it.

/ Max

... solid..